Qiu Guozheng, the head of Taiwan’s defense department, admitted for the first time that “submarines are made in China” (referring to Taiwan’s self-made submarine plan) when he was questioned by Kuomintang “legislator” Wu Sihuai in Taiwan’s “legislature” on the 23rd. “. In this regard, some netizens on the island said, “I don’t have the ability to do it, sad Taiwan”, and some netizens directly denounced, “From the beginning, it was for money (corruption)”.
According to reports, Qiu Guozheng, the head of Taiwan’s defense department, was questioned in Taiwan’s “legislative body” on the 23rd. Kuomintang “legislator” Wu Sihuai said that recently Taiwanese ship chairman Zheng Wenlong issued an internal open letter, which mentioned that “submarines are made in China”. “The difficulties; some submarine experts also expressed some concerns to him, as well as a potential shipbuilding crisis. Wu Sihuai suggested that Qiu Guozheng should incorporate relevant issues into the Joint Staff Unit of the “General Staff Headquarters”, and set up another project team for in-depth understanding. The existing submarine project team should not be “player and referee” and have the final say.
Qiu Guozheng responded, “Submarines (manufacturing) have encountered many problems, and he will not listen to the ‘submarine team’, but also listen to other people’s opinions, and the ‘submarine team’ will report to him regularly.”
According to the report, it is understood that in the open letter issued by Zheng Wenlong to employees, he admitted that the “submarine made in China” has encountered serious bottlenecks, and problems such as design manpower and equipment entering the field as scheduled, and the pressure on the participants is very high.
In addition, Wu Sihuai also mentioned that the Taiwan Navy only has two military ports, Zuoying and Suao, which can park submarines, but the “wartime” protection of these two military ports should be considered. , “Isn’t these tens of billions spent in vain?”
The report also quoted an article previously published by the American “Diplomatist” magazine saying that the biggest challenge of Taiwan’s “submarine manufacturing” plan is funding. The first four submarines alone must cost as much as 5 billion US dollars (about 31.86 billion yuan), This figure does not include maintenance costs for the long-term operation, as well as the construction costs of the subsequent four ships. “The Diplomat” mentioned that many interest groups support Taiwan’s self-built submarines on the grounds that “self-built submarines may benefit (Taiwan’s) local shipbuilding industry”, but their estimates of economic benefits are obviously too optimistic. Since Taiwan has no experience in building submarines, key technologies must rely on the cooperation of foreign defense and defense manufacturers, so it is almost certain that the final cost of the “submarine national manufacturing” plan will be higher than the original plan.
In response to the Taiwan military’s admission that Taiwan’s self-made submarine plan has encountered a bottleneck, some netizens on the island directly denounced, “(Submarine self-made plan) has been for the purpose of corrupting money (corruption) from the very beginning.”
Some netizens sarcastically said, “If you don’t have enough money, let’s just say it clearly, too many people have to share”, “I want to learn to run even if I can’t turn over, it’s really laughable! There should be (submarine self-made plan) renamed. The money pit plan!”
Some netizens bluntly said, “The DPP authorities said it was difficult to manufacture after they got the oil and water. The DPP deliberately came up with a plan to get the oil and water.”
Some netizens sighed, “It’s too scary to get it out of control,” and “I don’t have the ability to do it, sad Taiwan.”